My first response focused on the use of “Bipartisan”:
In my head I replayed Inigo Montoya: ” You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”

Then I remembered a favorite George Carlin quote: “The word bipartisan means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out”

After I really studied Trimble's post, I decided the latter response was most applicable.

Within his post Trimble iterates (Warning: English-English spelling ahead): “Our review of eight budget reduction proposals by a hodge-podge of
centrist, leftist and libertarian think tanks reveals a startling
insight: All of them agree that two military aircraft programmes should
be terminated or scaled back, and all of them agree those two programmes
should be the BellBoeing V-22 and the Lockheed Martin F-35.”

My next thought was someone needed to tell Mr. Trimble that the opposite
of ‘leftist’ isn’t ‘libertarian’. Do you see what is missing from that
“centrist, leftist and libertarian think tanks” list? That’s right:
“Conservative”. If we are talking spectrum of priorities on ‘defense
thinking’ conservative is to ‘approve’ as leftist is to ‘disapprove’ as
to libertarian is to ‘ambivalent’. [A ‘centrist’ BTW is just voting
‘present’.]

It just gets better from there. Just a word to the "conspirators" in the APA clubhouse...you know who you are...Sweetman...Horde....Trimble....Cox....many others.....we're all watching and some military bloggers are willing to challenge your spin and lies.

Trimble is good when he's covering every other subject except the F-35.

whenever he wanders into that subject area he gets sideways in a hurry. i wish i was still hooked into the little enter party e-mails but whatever the communication method, its obvious to me that the opinions and views of those conversations are leaking into his writing. and if i know what i think i know then those conversations focus almost entirely on the F-35.